voiced retroflex approximant
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Within Vinony's link graph, voiced retroflex approximant is referenced by 626 other articles, and connects out to voiced alveolar lateral approximant, voiced alveolar approximant and voiced alveolar nasal.
It is catalogued under topics including Approximant consonants, Median consonants and Oral consonants.
Its subject is documented across 29 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Entity decimal
- & #635;
- Unicode hex
- U+027B
- X sampa
- r\`
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- central consonant
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- IPA transcription
- ɻ
- X-SAMPA code
- r\`
- Kirshenbaum code
- r.
- IPA Braille
- ⠲⠼
- catalog code
- 152
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Encyclopedic overview
A voiced retroflex approximant is a type of consonant used in some languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ⟨ɻ⟩, a turned lowercase letter r with a rightward hook protruding from the lower right of the letter.
The velar bunched approximant found in some varieties of Dutch and American English is nearly indistinguishable from a retroflex approximant in sound, but has a different articulation.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “voiced retroflex approximant” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.